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191 sats \ 3 replies \ @TheWildHustle 16 Oct \ on: Amazon Goes Nuclear To Invest More Than $500 Million in Small Modular Reactors econ

I'm seeing a bunch of headlines about the nuclear adoption,

seems like it came out of nowhere, maybe the dam has broken and common sense is making a come back.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 OP 16 Oct

So the Department of Energy has really been bankrolling these SMR projects but the issue was no one wanted to pay the up front cost. After all the first ones are going to be the most expensive.

Big tech has the hunger and the pockets to kick it off. Many of these designs are set up to where you can place them at retired coal or bat gas plants for the connection. They are also stupid safe and I forgot which company but one was literally making there reactor bomb proof I mean just wild innovation!

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheWildHustle 16 Oct

We're about to see a crazy explosion of innovation in the next 20 years.

The world is going to look like the sovereign individual thesis on steroids.

Energy abundance A digitally native censorship resistant hard money standard Global free markets Robotics Decentralized communication protocols etc.

Thinking about the future of tech is pretty much my wheelhouse. I can't even fathom were all of this stuff takes us. Its like the next stage of human evolution.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @libertas 16 Oct

Exactly how I've been feeling. I've occasionally been black-pilled in the short-term, but very, very white-pilled in the long-term. Even within the next 10 years I think we will see very positive changes.